This paper presents an advancement in educating future scientists. University education normally has two major goals. The first one is to provide students with skills and knowledge to make their way in the higher levels of industry and...

Our workgroup is experimenting with and evaluating different forms of teaching and learning. A new form of teaching is the virtual practical training/lab course on database systems. We developed a virtual practical training on the subject of...

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology
2004(2004)
pp. 1961–1966

The Virtual University is an Internet-based learning environment developed at the University of Hagen that includes all aspects of a university. The project is experimenting with and evaluating different forms of teaching and learning. A new form of ...

The Virtual University is a learning environment at the University of Hagen. The project is aimed at distance education of fully employed part-time students inter alia. These students need special assistance in their difficult learning situation in...

The Virtual University is an Internet-based learning environment developed at the University of Hagen that includes all aspects of a university. The project is experimenting with and evaluating different forms of teaching and learning. A new form of ...

From the challenging prerequisites and needs of our students we developed new roles for the tutors and students in a virtual database practical training within a roleplay. We embedded our learning targets partly given by the curriculum into the...